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This bill appears to affect only the 18, possibly 20,
states which have some kind of literacy test as a qualification for
voting. It does not apply to four Southern states in which are found
25 per cent of the unregistered Negroes of the South -- Arkansas,
Fiorida, Tennesses, and Texas. It does not apply to Smith County,
Texas, with low voter turnout among a population of 27 per cent Negro.
On the other hand, it dees apply to Aroostook County, Maine, where only
one per cent of the population is non-thite.
This bill ignores those discriminstery practices used in the
states that do not empley literacy and similar tests.
In the literacystest states it largely ignores discrimination
that touches less than 50 per cent of the population.
This bill introduces a strange kind of geographical discriminstica.
It mullifies the liseracy test in Martin Gounty, North Carolina, where
49.9 per cont of the veting-age oppulation vent to the polle in 1964, but
it lesves the literacy test in full effect in Guilford County, North Carolina,
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